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Laconia City Council moves forward with plans for tax break for new businesses
By RICK GREEN, LACONIA DAILY SUN
LACONIA — Industrial businesses that want to locate or expand in the city would get a property tax break under a plan approved Monday by city councilors.
The idea is to attract and encourage the kind of companies that can provide good-paying jobs and boost the local economy.
City Manager Scott Myers had urged the City Council to consider offering... Read more

Letters

To The Daily Sun,
We, the volunteers of the Center Harbor Food Pantry, would like to thank the Bald Peak Community Fund for recognizing us in their donation of $5,000. Their donation will help us to keep going in the winter months ahead and will help feed the less fortunate among us that are burdened with other bills such as fuel, higher electric bills, etc.
We feed approximately 1,600 people a month in the winter and are... Read more

Announcements

MEREDITH — Jacqueline Taylor, a local Edward Jones financial advisor, is supporting the Northern Region Toys for Tots program by using her office as a drop-off location for this year's toy drive.
Local residents may help needy children in the area by bringing in a new, unwrapped toy to the office, 14 Main St., downtown Meredith, during regular business hours through Dec. 20.
"With the holiday season around the corner, we are all getting ready for the... Read more

Obituaries

BOSCAWEN — Miriam E. (Beattie) Downs, 87, died peacefully Nov. 25, 2017, at Merrimack County Nursing Home in Boscawen. She was born and raised in Woburn, Massachusetts, the youngest daughter of Harold V. and Esther (Pottle) Beattie. It was here that she met Clayton E. Downs, the love of her life, and they were married in 1949.Miriam and Clayton raised their family and farmed in Belmont, where they operated a small dairy farm and sold... Read more

Columns

"We will never accept Russia's occupation and attempted annexation of Crimea," declaimed Rex Tillerson last week in Vienna. "Crimea-related sanctions will remain in place until Russia returns full control of the peninsula to Ukraine."
Tillerson's principled rejection of the seizure of land by military force — "never accept" — came just one day after President Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital and pledged to move our embassy there.
How did Israel gain title to East Jerusalem, the West... Read more